Category Archives: (Sandbox Syndication Account) National News (Master Feed)
Bollywood actor’s death grips India with frenzied TV coverage
By Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI (Reuters) - The demise of a young movie star has transfixed India like no other news in a year of bad headlines. The abrupt death of Sushant Singh Rajput has spurred a de...
Sep 09, 2020
More than 1 billion people face displacement by 2050: report
By Luke Baker LONDON (Reuters) - Rapid population growth, lack of access to food and water and increased exposure to natural disasters mean more than 1 billion people face being displaced by 2050, acc...
Sep 09, 2020
U.S. firms in China increasingly fear soured ties will last for years: survey
By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. companies in China are increasingly fretful that trade tensions between the world's two biggest economies will drag out over years and nearly a third said their...
Sep 09, 2020
Exclusive: Trump administration to deny pending retroactive U.S. biofuel waivers, say sources
By Stephanie Kelly, Jeff Mason and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to deny dozens of refiner requests for retro...
Sep 08, 2020
Japan’s Suga in pole position for PM as debate kicks off
TOKYO (Reuters) - Yoshihide Suga is on course for a landslide victory in the race to become Japan's next prime minister, an Asahi newspaper tally showed, as debate kicks off later Wednesday among the ...
Sep 08, 2020
At campaign rally, Trump steps up attacks on Biden over China
By Jeff Mason WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday escalated his efforts to make China a central theme of the U.S. presidential race, accusing Democratic rival Joe Biden o...
Sep 08, 2020
Trump will announce reduction in U.S. troops in Iraq on Wednesday
By Jeff Mason ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will announce a further drawdown of U.S. troops from Iraq on Wednesday, a senior administration official told reporters on Tuesday...
Sep 08, 2020
Oscars academy sets out new diversity standards for best picture contenders
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The body that hands out the Academy Awards on Tuesday published detailed inclusion and diversity guidelines that filmmakers will have to meet in order for their work to be elig...
Sep 08, 2020
Top U.S. federal election protection official says no sign of infrastructure hacks
By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The official leading the effort to protect U.S. elections from foreign hacking said on Tuesday he had seen no signs of infiltration on computer systems used to...
Sep 08, 2020
‘Worse than combat:’ Helicopters rescue hundreds from California wildfire
By Andrew Hay (Reuters) - U.S. military helicopters on Tuesday plucked dozens more campers, hikers and locals from the path of a raging California wildfire, with one pilot describing conditions as mor...
Sep 08, 2020
